“I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'” FatherFictionWeekMinutesStudentsOfficeFellowsLawyerCoffeeShopsLunchDaddyCablesWorkshopsCourtshipIowaCoffee Shop Author:Bharati Mukherjee
“A five-minute teacher understands that peers' words can carry a lot more weight than his or her own, and there is nothing wrong with students doing the teaching.” FiveTeacherTeachingMinutesStudentsWeightPeersFive Minutes Book:The 5-Minute Teacher: How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias) Source: The 5-Minute Teacher: How do I maximize time for learning in my classroom? (ASCD Arias)
“The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this crosshatch are streets meandering on the diagonal creating a multitude of ways to get from one place to another by traveling along the hypotenuse. These are the avenues of the tryst which enable Acting Student A to travel the eighteen miles across town to Acting Student B's garage apartment in nine minutes flat after a hot-blooded phone call at midnight.” WayActingStreetsMinutesStudentsCreatingTownsHotFingersPhonesMilesNineHillsLandscapeFlatsLos AngelesApartmentMultitudesMidnightAvenuesEighteenPhone CallsGarageDiagonal Author:Steve Martin
“Students think they must write down the idea immediately, but I tell them if it's a good idea it'll be in your head in five minutes' time.” IfsThinkingWritingIdeasFiveMinutesStudentsGood IdeasFive Minutes Author:Judith Weir
“A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.” CertainFallReadingCompanyNovelMinutesStudentsReaderTenFeverBad Company Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“I didn't speak a single word of English when I was told that I was one of the lucky students been selected to go to study at the Houston Ballet Academy. I knew I had to study hard in every aspect, in both language and dance, which I did. I put my whole heart and soul into each minute of my day while in America and what an experience those six weeks gave me.” HeartSoulHardWholeAmericaSpeakLanguageStudyWeekMinutesStudentsLuckySixAspectBalletAcademyHeart And SoulSelectedHoustonSingle Word Author:Li Cunxin
“Arriving to class late is disruptive of the learning process. I think that it is disrespectful to both the instructor and the students. I generally find a problem with students being tardy to my 9:10 a.m. class, in which students would come in thirty minutes late to this fifty minute class. I started locking my door at 9:15 second semester.” ThinkingProblemProcessClassDoorsMinutesStudentsLateThirtyFiftyLearning ProcessArrivingInstructorsDisruptiveDisrespectfulSemester Author:Patricia McCormick
“One of the ways to reduce that barking would be to have volunteers come in especially for hte for the dogs and take each dog out for 45 minutes each day and spend quality time with the person - that would help reduce the stress and in fact, one of my students did a study on that.” WayPersonsFactsHelpingWould BeQualityStudyMinutesDogStudentsStressEach DayVolunteerQuality Time Author:Temple Grandin